Best 389 quotes in «classic quotes» category

Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

Tell the children the truth.

That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

The classic literature is always modern.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of civilizations are very often right before the collapse. The Renaissance in Italy was very much like the Classic Maya. The apogee was the collapse. The Golden Age of Greece was the same thing. We see this pattern repeated continuously, and it is one that should make us nervous. I just heard Bill Gates say that we are living in the greatest time in history. Now you can understand why Bill Gates would think that, but even if he is right, that is an ominous thing to say.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

The net neutrality game is to make everybody the same so that there's no difference and the prices are the same and if these Millennials got their way nothing would cost anything. But it's classic. This is a great illustration. Net neutrality is being stood upside down which is good because it's pro-competition, it offers customers options.

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

There are many stories of people didn't set out to make a film that became a classic - the whole process was a disaster, everybody hated each other, the movie itself was a disaster, everybody thought the movie and the script was going to be a piece of crap. Look at Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho. Nobody wanted to make Psycho; it was crap to them. The only person that wanted to make Psycho was Hitchcock. Now, it's considered a classic and a work of art.

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

There's a lot of your family in tonight.

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

They're not mating are they?

There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

This could only happen in a technical college.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.

We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.